Gambling, ghosts, and doomed love — Tchaikovsky's most unhinged romantic thriller.
Tchaikovsky’s macabre thriller, set against the backdrop of Tsarist Russia, is back in the Met’s atmospheric staging. Soprano Sonya Yoncheva makes her highly anticipated role debut as Lisa, the young woman who embarks on a deadly love affair with the gambling-obsessed officer Hermann, sung by tenor Arsen Soghomonyan in his Met debut. Baritone Igor Golovatenko reprises his moving portrayal of Lisa’s fiancé, Prince Yeletsky, alongside mezzo-soprano Violeta Urmana as the spectral Countess and baritone Alexey Markov as Count Tomsky. Keri-Lynn Wilson conducts the sweeping score.
Acting
Yoncheva's debut — raw, devastating, unforgettable.
Production
Moshinsky's atmospheric Tsarist Russia staging.
Score
Wilson conducts Tchaikovsky's most unhinged music.
Director
Elijah Moshinsky
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Tchaikovsky wrote this in just 44 days while escaping his own disastrous marriage.
The opera mirrors Pushkin's own gambling addiction — the composer saw himself in Hermann's ruin.
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